Sperm Donor Ordered to Pay Child Support

By
Hopper Law Firm, PLLC
|February 03, 2014

Five years ago, a Kansas man responded to an ad he saw on Craigslist posted
by a lesbian couple seeking a sperm donor. He said that he wanted to help
them out. The man donated for free, and he signed papers to waive his
parental rights. Last Thursday, January 23, however, a judge ordered the
man to pay
child support, reports CNN. The judge cited the fact that the man did not follow state
law, a law that mandates that a licensed physician has to perform the
artificial insemination. The lesbian couple did the process themselves
at home, say court documents.

Sometime after their daughter was born in 2009, the couple split up, and
one parent could no longer work due to a medical condition. When she petitioned
the state for financial aid, the state then turned to the sperm donor
to order child support. The state decided that the papers the man signed
were invalid because a doctor did not perform the procedure. State officials
have said that a physician was needed to document that the man donated
his sperm, and that he was not the mother's lover. This means that
he could now be on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars in legal
fees and child support payments.

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and court rulings. In order to protect your rights in any family law issue, from
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